2019 NEW MULTICAM SITCOMS
FRAN DRESCHER IN UNINSURED!
Rejoice, spylings, some of our favourite comedians are returning to the small screens! I've informed you recently that
Adam Pally and
Abby Elliott will
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| Fran Drescher will play the Uninsured mother |
lead the pilot for NBC's new multicam sitcom
UNINSURED and now the queen of comedy herself
Fran Drescher is joining them as well! The story revolves around young parents Dave (Pally) and Rebecca (Elliott), who end up having to take care of Dave’s parents who have mishandled their finances and need help to pay down a sizeable debt.
Fran Drescher will play Linda, described as a woman who loves her kids and grandkids as much as she loves reminding people she’s from Brooklyn.This will be our dearest Fran's return to sitcoms after The Nanny, Living with Fran and Happily Divorced.
JEAN LUC BILODEAU CAST IN CAROL'S SECOND ACT AT CBS Over at CBS, they've cast another of our beloved sitcom stars. Baby Daddy's sweetest heartthrob
Jean Luc Bilodeau has joined the pilot of
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| Jean Luc Bilodeau will be one of the interns! |
Heaton's sitcom
CAROL'S SECOND ACT in which she will play Carol Chambers who after raising her two children and retiring from teaching, embarks on a unique second act: she’s going to become a doctor. Bilodeau will play Daniel, the second member of Carol’s quartet of interns. He graduated from Harvard in 2014 and from Harvard Medical School in 2018 and already is published in The New England Journal of Medicine — twice.
Kyle MacLachlan has also joined as Dr. Frost, the Senior Attending Physician on the ward (as well as the Department Chair) who thinks he’s funnier than he is. Considerably more empathetic than
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| Kyle MacLachlan has also joined Carol's Second Act |
Dr. Maya (
Ito Aghayere), Dr. Frost takes an immediate shine to Carol.
Bonnie Dennison will play Jenny, Carol’s big hearted daughter who became a pharmaceutical rep because, as a pretty and charming young woman, it’s an easy job.
MICHAEL ANGARANO & BRIGA HEELAN IN NEW CBS SITCOM
CBS is also bringing back gorgeous
Briga Heelan to the world of sitcoms together with
Michael Angarano in
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN a hybrid sitcom which centres on Evan (Angarano) who, with the help of his
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| Michael Angarano and Briga Heelan will lead the new sitcom pilot |
group of friends, sets out to accomplish a list of challenges he wrote for himself years ago in an effort to turn around his banal life. Briga will play one of his friends, the entrepreneurial co-owner of Pittsburgh's coolest pierogi shop.
JANE CURTIN IN UNITED WE FALL![]() |
| Jane Curtin will star in ABC's new pilot |
Yet, another of sitcom legends, 3rd Rock From the Sun's
Jane Curtin is returning to TV comedies in
UNITED WE FALL a profoundly realistic, multicultural sitcom that shows how, when two people, Bill and Jo, with young children and overzealous extended families truly love each other, barely anything is possible. Curtin will play Bill’s extremely judgemental mother who joined their house during a health scare till she recovered, but she never left! She makes it her business to tell them everything they do is wrong!
